Senior Business Analyst
| Job Type | Contract |
| Location | Newcastle-Upon Tyne/ Hybrid (must live near Newcastle) |
| Area | North East, UK |
| Sector | Programme & Project Management |
| Salary | £750 Per Day |
| Start Date | May 1st, 2026 |
| Advertiser | Joel Rutherford |
| Job Ref | 7446-PSR1JP00101334 |
| IR35 | Inside |
| Security Clearance | DBS/DS |
- Description
- The Client:
A government department client is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join them on a 12 month contract. This position will be based in Newcastle-Upon Tyne/ Hybrid (must live near Newcastle).
Job Summary:
The client is a new arm’s-length body established to deliver compensation at pace to those affected by the infected blood scandal. We are committed to placing the community at the heart of our work, ensuring that those infected and affected receive the recognition and support they deserve.
Are you driven and ready for an opportunity which will make a real impact? This is a challenging and fulfilling role that requires pace, impact, sensitivity, and compassion.
The multidisciplinary teams are organised around delivering our mission and priorities. These are:
- To create a user-centred, empathetic end-to-end service at the heart of the client.
- To provide the means of paying compensation to those eligible.
- To iterate our service through starting small and scaling fast, through a test and learn approach.
We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join us to support our client mission.
This role requires you to be in the Newcastle office at least 60% of your time. As a Senior Business Analyst in the client, you will be working at pace working with a multi-disciplined team to conduct analysis that allows us to meet user and business needs.
- You will undertake research and analysis to understand how the client works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology.
- You will identify areas for improvement, explore feasible options, analyse the effects of change and define success measures.
- You will identify and elaborate user and business needs to enable effective design, development and testing of services and business change.
- You will ensure new products and services meet business and user needs, and are aligned with organisational goals.
- You will understand any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assess the implications.
Key responsibilities include:
- Helping to define required capabilities and support organisational changes to create and implement operating models that meet business objectives.
- Identifying opportunities to improve business performance within a project or programme.
- Advising on the approach to identify, investigate, analyse and communicate complex business problems and opportunities within a project or programme.
- Ensuring solutions align with business goals and objectives, and business / user needs, and achieve the required outcomes and expected benefits.
- Ensuring your proposed solutions align with organisational vision and strategy.
Person Specification:
- Significant experience of working at Senior Business Analyst level in a digital environment.
- Ability to horizon scan and gather intelligence to understand any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assessing the implications.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to build long-term strategic relationships including where there may be conflict or competing priorities.
- The ability to identify issues or opportunities and see them through to resolution, influencing stakeholders and managing relationships effectively throughout.
- Experience of working with limited direction to translate business drivers, goals and constraints into business objectives.
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams, using agile or other project methodologies.
- Knowledge of different methodologies and of helping teams to adopt a range of Agile tools and techniques to undertake business analysis.
- Experience of managing communities of practice activities, also encouraging and supporting Business Analysts learning and development.
Our Company:
Malikshaw Interim & Executive is a specialist provider of talent management solutions helping our clients transform the delivery of our public services. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we combine providing the best talent with delivering diverse, inclusive workforces and particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people, and women.
How to Apply:
Please apply through the link provided to send your application directly to the Recruiter managing this assignment.
If you qualify for any of the above, please notify us on your covering letter and your recruiter will confirm if the client is a member. We will then be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.
- To create a user-centred, empathetic end-to-end service at the heart of the client.
